William K. Wolfrum Chronicles

The 700 Club has an exclusive interview with Sarah Palin. It’s the perfect fit for the media-hating Republican. After all, other stories promoted by the prominent radical Christianists:

• A woman who had God tell her that Satan caused the economic crisis and that she needs to go to New York City and pray.
• A blog about how Satan causes homosexuality.
• A story called “Generation Hex: Teen Witches.”
• A story from Watergate crook Chuck Colson about the dangers of Vampire stories for girls.
• A story from God-wants-you-to-be-greedy evangelist Victoria Osteen.
• A story promoting a U.S. takeover of Iran.
• A special report detailing the complexities of Halloween.

Of course, I would never give Palin hell for working with Pat Robertson or call him an “Agent of Intolerance.” I’ll leave that for John McCain.

Here is some of what Palin had to say to The 700 Club:

On supporting a Constitutional Amendment banning gay marriage:

“I am, in my own, state, I have voted along with the vast majority of Alaskans who had the opportunity to vote to amend our Constitution defining marriage as between one man and one woman. I wish on a federal level that that’s where we would go because I don’t support gay marriage. I’m not going to be out there judging individuals, sitting in a seat of judgment telling what they can and can’t do, should and should not do, but I certainly can express my own opinion here and take actions that I believe would be best for traditional marriage and that’s casting my votes and speaking up for traditional marriage that, that instrument that it’s the foundation of our society is that strong family and that’s based on that traditional definition of marriage, so I do support that.”

On Barack Obama’s stance on abortion:

“I think the most troubling issue that I know of that Barack Obama is completely the other side of John McCain and that I am on is, is the abortion issue because his abortion stance is so extreme. It’s so, so far left that it’s way out of the mainstream. I think he’s in some sense succeeded in trying to package up, and pretty-up some of his policies to make them look mainstream even on abortion, but American voters have got to realize his opposition to parental consent, his opposition to a ban on partial birth abortion and most troubling his opposition to the child born alive act, I think should be, and I say this, I mean, this is mild to say it is quite concerning. But to withhold medical intervention for a baby who is born alive as a result of a botched abortion and to allow that child to die without the medical intervention that that child deserves I, it’s appalling to me and I think it should concern voters, and I think they just need to know of that record, and it’s not mean spirited and it’s not negative campaigning to call somebody out on their record, so that record of extreme, extreme position taken on abortion, I think should be discussed and considered.”

On what she prays for:

“Pray of course for about my family that my kids will not be adversely affected by some of the political shots of course that, that we’ve been taking the last couple of months. I pray for my son’s safety over in Iraq fighting for us in a striker brigade in the US Army and for all of our troops and I pray too for in the grander, greater scheme of things also that God’s hand of protection would be over our country and that we as individuals would be endowed with strength to do all that we can to protect our nation and protect our Constitutional rights and do those things that I believe will make our country better, greater, but it’s going to take even more than that truly it will take God’s hand of protection to be continually over our land and His wisdom, His grace, His favor I pray for that for our country. I pray for that for other nations also, so that other nations would be safe, would be healthy, that the people who live there - especially the children who are growing up in some of these nations that are certainly not as privileged as we are would know that there is hope, that there is opportunity if they seek that and if they seek God’s guidance.”

On why she won’t do interviews with cable news channels other than Fox News:

“Well sometimes it just doesn’t do any good. I mean you set yourself up just to continually be mocked, you know so sometimes that doesn’t do any good, but what I have done in this campaign is in reaching out to the American voters through our rallies, through the one on ones, through the small meetings that we’ve had trying to get our message out, our plans for this country out there minus the filter of some of the filter of the mainstream media because, because that filter as, as we see every day when we turn on the news too often there is this, this opaqueness, there is this, this spin, this contortion of a person’s words and intentions and that does more harm than good, so it’s a greater challenge for me and for John McCain to try to get our message out there without that filter of I think some of the world’s media. It’s a greater challenge, but again, it does make us work harder and try to reach more people.”

On the terrible beating God has taken this election cycle:

“I think the saddest part of that is that faith, not just my faith, faith and God in general has been mocked through this campaign, and that breaks my heart and that is unfair for others who share a faith in God and chose to worship our Lord in whatever private manner that they deem fit and my faith has always been pretty personal. I haven’t really worn it on my sleeve. I haven’t been out there preaching it. I’ve always been of the mind that you caalk the walk. You just don’t have to be talking the talk about your beliefs, so just wanting maybe my life to be able to reflect my faith. So it’s always been pretty personal and that was kind of a surprise in the last couple of months that people would misconstrue and spin anything that has to do with my faith or anybody else’s and turn it into something to be mocked. That’s very sad. I don’t think that there’s anything that I can do about it, so you know, I won’t, I won’t whine or complain about it, but nobody is going to convince me that my foundation of faith is not good for me and for my family no matter the mocking, no matter what anybody says about it, I’m going to keep plugging away at this and I’m going to keep seeking God’s guidance and His wisdom and His favor and His grace, for me, for my family, for this campaign, for our nation.”

Find the rest here.

–WKW

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